Work and Unseen Chronic Illness
Subtitle: Silent Voices (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415243476
Subjects: Illness & addiction: social aspects; Labour economics; Work & labour; Social Conditions Of Labor; Business & Economics; Medical / Nursing; Business/Economics; Occupational & Industrial Medicine; Business & Economics / General; Labor; Chronic diseases; Discrimination in employment; Work capacity evaluation
First sentence: The first question I needed to ask, as a researcher, was not how to proceed, but why I was involved (Drew 1989: 431).
Description: "In an increasingly aging society, medicine, hygiene and nutrition have reduced the impact of acute and life-threatening illnesses. However, whilst we are living longer, the chance of developing or contracting a chronic illness is increasing." "There are a growing number of working adults affected by chronic health conditions that may be largely invisible to those around them. In this book, the author explores the 'silent' problem of unseen illness at work." "This innovative work contains bold accounts of pain, cruelty and injustice, but is also vivifies the strength and endurance of the human spirit. Scholars, students and practitioners in studies of organisations, health studies or qualitative research will find this work both powerful and valuable."--Jacket.